The Last Inch of Freedom
Picture: Parliament Square, October 2006
The words of the wise echo ever more hollow
Through the halls of a house under corporate control
You walk down their road and you think I will follow
But the last inch of freedom is here in my soul
Now and forever.
Our votes have been counted and filed and forgotten
We dine on a diet of half-truths and lies
And a global economy’s scraps and leftovers
But the last inch of freedom…..there’s no compromise
We are together.
You can’t hear our voices for the thunder of money
The roar of the rivers that roll over borders
We’ll fight evermore for the last inch of freedom
We won’t keep their laws and we won’t take their orders;
Not now or ever.
In the last inch of freedom, we’ve sown revolutions
We’ve cut down the weeds and we’ve watered the flowers;
And we tend that small garden, for we are the people,
And the last inch of freedom will always be ours,
Now and forever.
by Les Barker. Recorded by Pete Morton on Les’s CD Twilight of the Dogs, 2006.
